Download the required drivers for the latest folder container esxi-650-* hierachiehttp://vibsdepot.hpe.com/hpe/nov2016/(alternatively you could connect this online, but have to build the image without a proper internet connection)

The “esxi-650-devicedrivers” folder contains the right offline bundles for the drivers. Pick the ones you need for your hardware. If you have no idea how to find our what driver is required, please play around a little bit with the “esxcfg-*” commands on the ESXi Shell. List your network and storage adapters on an existing ESXi, best installed with vendor image, and note down the drivers are used.

The “esxi-650-bundles” contains all additional agents and tooling. Just download the hpe-esxi6.5uX-bundle-* file as this does contain the hpe-smx-provider CIM provider integration you need for proper hardware monitoring.Some of the drivers are double zipped. Just extract the first layer so you have the offline bundle. The second zip file should not contain any further *.zip file, but *.vib or a vib20 folder.

This list does also contain drivers now get removed, but later added from the HPE depot in a newer version.

Attention: Not all packages can be removed in the listed order as there dependencies between them. If the CLI does not allow you to remove a package as it is a required for another package, just remove the other first and try again.